Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-06-18
CROP PROSPECT.
Good Reports From All Sections OF the

Good Reports From All Sections OF the
Country, With the West In the lead.
WELLINGTON, D. O., June 1O.-The spring
wheat area has been enlarged per cent.
from the increase in immigration and farm
making west of the Mississippi river in dis
tricts traversed by the Northern Pacific
railroad Most Of the increase is in Dakots,
which reports an increment Of "a
per cent. The total area Of wheat is about
1900, 900 acres, a fraction OF / per cent.
more than that Of the previous crop.
In the condition of winter wheat there Is
no change the average being 64.S, a r5duC-
ton OF nine-tenths Of 1 per cent. in 1856.
Inc j une average was S2.I. Reports OF short
straw are very numerous. In some stEiCt5
there are indications that the yield of grain
VIII be larger prOpOruOnElly, than OF straw.
If there Is no increase from this cause, the
yield must be less than the average. harvest
Is already IN progress up to the 30sh degree
of north latitude. The condition Of spring
wheat is good in Dakota and the ter
rltorles westward, but below the ay-
erag6 II WISCONSIN, Minnesota, Iowa
and Nebraska Th5 general average
for spring wheat is S7.3, which Ia lower than
IN recent years. but thirteen points higher
than IN 1881. At harvesting last year the
condition averaged so. The dry weather IN
April has been injurious to winter wheat, and
IN some sections have committed greater
depredatlons than usual The central belt
has suffered local damage from the Hessian
hy, and the ohintz bug has wrought injury
IN Illinois, Missouri and Kansas The area
Of winter rye has been diminished over
per cent mainly by large reduction IN Kan
sas and the condition is better then that OF
the whole, as usual averaging 1873. An
enlargement of the barley acreage Of 3 per-
cent IS indicated. The increase Is in Dakota
California, Orsgan and the territories. The
condition average is 81, being slightly
aObV5 that OF wheat. There Is a COnLin-
uanc6 Of the extension Of oats culture. Inc
increase il 4 per cent. This crop has taken
part of the area formerly IN wheat IN Kan
Bas- The advance Is 30 per cent over the
average OF last year. The increase ID large
In the northwest and there Is q tendency to
enlargement in all portions Of the country.
In the acreage OF cotton an increase
Of I per cent IS reported. There
appears to be a slight decline in the states OF
the Atlantic coast and an increase west OF
the Mississippi. The state averages are:
Virginia 80, North Carolina 80 b, South Car
oline 50, Georgia 50 3, Florida 81, Alabama
100, Mississippi 1904, Louisiana 1O2s Texas
log, Arkansas 1925, Tennessee 100. The
condition Of cotton is higher than in any
June since 1880, an average Of $685. and has
only been eEceeded three times since 1870.
The best yield IN that PERIOD however, was
IN 1884, when the June condition was -.
The figure that has been discounted SIX
times since 1870 Is a good beginning but
does not insure a good crop. The state
averages are: Virginia 80, North Carolina
Florida SO, Alabama 80, Mississippi 50, Lou
iFianG 81, Texas 1OI, Arkansas SO, Tennessee
81, a general average of 1853. There IS gener-
ally an unusually good '5tand" or ''plant,"
but IN Texas the early plant did not come
up. Late planting Is better. There Is not
a full plant in some fields in Arkansas.
Clean cultivation is reported, aB a rule, and
healthy and good growth.